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PSYCHIC BATTLE
2026 ✦ 43min ✦ LP
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These seven tracks took me 20 years. After making
Silence is Golden, I started the very
earliest bits of what would eventually become this album, but then hit a long musical
creative block, and life kept getting busier and busier. I made the noise EP
Sugar Brain 3 in 2011, hoping to kickstart
myself back into music. I'm proud of that album, and wanted to follow it up with
my next "proper" LP, but life got in the way. When I was living in Nagasaki,
I managed to make four songs, "Novo", "Amethyst", "Street Meat" and "199X" in
2013 and 2014.. Life (endless work deadlines,
mostly) continued to get in the way, and I almost gave up hope that I'd be able to
make music again. Eventually, feeling the urgency and panic of life passing by
quickly, I became obsessed with making music again, and I made two new tracks,
"Final Girl" and "Blood Oath" in December 2025, then "Music, Save My Life" in
January 2026. I made some tweaks to the earlier tracks (added an extra minute to
Novo, for example, and fine-tuned the album flow) and with that, I decided to
call this album finished! It's my best work yet and I really feel like I grew as a musician. It's
an album that juggles a futuristic sci-fi vibe with a sinister undercurrent,
albeit with flashes of optimism. I went all-out on soundscapes that fill your
headphones, tried to polish up my sound a bit, and held back a bit on the chaos
of my older music. It feels great to have made music again after so long. I
needed that.
Since this is a new beginning, I decided to use my own given name for my music.
“Macro” was a neat name this past 22 years, but it’s a name used by too many
other musicians online. (Honestly, giving up the cool logo I designed was the
hardest part.) Evan Hayden is fine though. That’s me! It makes sense to unify
all my art
under the same name.
I have so many music ideas, and I dream of having enough free time to make them
reality. Here's to hoping that the next album arrives a little sooner!
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RECORDED: 2007-2026, in San Francisco CA, Los Angeles CA, Monroe MI, Nagasaki JP,
& Toledo OH
COMPLETION: 1/20/2026
ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden
PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden
SEE MORE PACKAGING DESIGN FROM THIS LP: (coming
soon!)
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